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Children's Week Holiday 2018
Children's Week 2018 runs April 30th through May 7th! This holiday boasts 10 cute battle pets for players to collect, as well as the challenging PvP achievement
School of Hard Knocks
. Read up on all the details in the
Children's Week Guide
.
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Children's Week 2017 Holiday Updates and Guide
Children's Week 2017 runs May 1st through May 8th! This holiday boasts 10 cute battle pets for players to collect, as well as the challenging PvP achievement
School of Hard Knocks
. Read up on all the details in the
Children's Week Guide
.
The following 10 pets are available through completing various orphan questlines. You can't get them all on one character, but if you do the quests on alts, you should be able to get them all in one year:
Azeroth:
Rat Cage
,
Turtle Box
,
Snail Shell
,
Piglet's Collar
Outland:
Egbert's Egg
,
Elekk Training Collar
,
Sleepy Willy
,
Legs
Northrend:
Curious Oracle Hatchling
,
Curious Wolvar Pup
If collecting these pets inspires you to learn more about pet battling, check out the
Notable Battle Pets by Family
and
Pet Battling Primer
by Elektrophorus.
School of Hard Knocks
may be particularly challenging this year because it will overlap with the
Battleground Bonus Event
; a time when many players want to do the battlegrounds correctly for
A Call to Battle
. We have a separate guide just to the
School of Hard Knocks
explaining the basics of each battleground for those just interested in getting the orphan achievement.
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This Month in WoW - May 2017
Blizzard has published their usual roundup of events for the upcoming month! In addition to all the May 2017 events, Blizzard Community has also highlighted some fun toys and other collectible items for you to discover.
Notable events in May 2017 include
Children's Week
, two new PvP brawls,
Cataclysm Timewalking
and two micro-holidays - the
Glowcap Festival
and
Spring Balloon Festival
.
Children's Week 2016 Guide (May 2 - May 9)
Children's Week
is a week in which we brave a challenge greater than any undead monstrosity and a task more daunting than saving the world. We must become parents for all those orphans throughout Azeroth and make sure they are happy. We can't tank a child's fears, we can't heal its memories of pain, nor can we DPS the sorrow out of them. So equip your toys, make a mage conjure a candy table, fill your quiver with joy, load your gun with something colorful, and venture into the World of Parenting!
Children's Week
begins on
May 2nd
at
11:01 AM
and ends on
May 9th
at
11:00 AM
.
Due to the advent of Cataclysm,
Children's Week
was changed in 2011 to have two new pets and redone locations for the initial tier of quests. In 2015,
Green Balloon
is a toy that counts towards your Toy Box. In 2016,
Yellow Balloon
also counts towards your Toy Box.
If you already have all the pets, be sure to pick up
Pet Care Package
--the reward for repeating the holiday, even if you can't get any pets!
Pet Care Package
is new to 2015 and contains a variety of items including pug costumes like
Big Pink Bow
,
Magical Pet Biscuit
, and
Flawless Battle-Stone
. This is an alternative reward from the orphan quests and great if you already have the pets!
Children's Week 2015 Guide (April 27 - May 4)
Children's Week
is a week in which we brave a challenge greater than any undead monstrosity and a task more daunting than saving the world. We must become parents for all those orphans throughout Azeroth and make sure they are happy. We can't tank a child's fears, we can't heal its memories of pain, nor can we DPS the sorrow out of them. So equip your toys, make a mage conjure a candy table, fill your quiver with joy, load your gun with something colorful, and venture into the World of Parenting!
Children's Week
begins on
April 27th
at
11:01 AM
and ends on
May 4th
at
11:00 AM
.
In 2015,
Green Balloon
is a toy that counts towards your Toy Box.
Pet Care Package
is also new to 2015 and contains a variety of items including pug costumes like
Big Pink Bow
,
Magical Pet Biscuit
, and
Flawless Battle-Stone
. This is an alternative reward from the orphan quests and great if you already have the pets!
Flawless Battle-Stone
can also be sold on the AH.
There are 10 pets you can get during Children's Week, and they are account-wide, so you can do the quest chains on multiple characters to get all the pets in one year. You can get
3 pets
on one character per year.
Orgrimmar/Stormwind
:
Whiskers the Rat
,
Speedy
,
Scooter the Snail
,
Mr. Wiggles
Shattrath (Outland)
:
Egbert
,
Peanut
,
Willy
,
Legs
Dalaran (Northrend)
:
Curious Oracle Hatchling
,
Curious Wolvar Pup
Children's Week Guide - School of Hard Knocks How-To
With
Children's Week
underway, players shooting for
What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been
will be wanting to check this holiday off their list.
Children's Week
brings the meta's most hated achievement:
School of Hard Knocks
. Wowhead has a short and sweet guide to help you get this done with the minimum of fuss. Let's go from the easiest to the hardest. If you're looking for a full guide to all the achievements and rewards from this holiday, check out
Wowhead's Children's Week Guide
.
This guide assumes you have little or no PvP experience, and we've got tips for avoiding PvP if you're a die-hard PvE-focused player who just wants to get this done and never enter a Battleground again.
First up,
always
have your orphan out in these battlegrounds. No exceptions - you wouldn't want to complete one of these objectives only to realize your orphan wasn't there to see it and your hard work was for nothing.
2014 Children's Week Guide (April 28 - May 5)
Children's Week
is a week in which we brave a challenge greater than any undead monstrosity and a task more daunting than saving the world. We must become parents for all those orphans throughout Azeroth and make sure they are happy. We can't tank a child's fears, we can't heal its memories of pain, nor can we DPS the sorrow out of them. So equip your toys, make a mage conjure a candy table, fill your quiver with joy, load your gun with something colorful, and venture into the World of Parenting!
Children's Week
begins on
April 28th
at
11:01 AM
(server time) and ends on
May 5th
at
11:00 AM
.
Due to the advent of Cataclysm,
Children's Week
was changed in 2011 to have two new pets and redone locations for the initial tier of quests.
There's nothing new in 2014, but since all vanity pets are now battle pets in Mists of Pandaria, you might be more interested in collecting pets this expansion! Since battle pets are also account-wide, you can collect different sets of pets on your alts to round out your collection faster.
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Children's Week 2013 Guide (April 29 - May 6)
Children's Week
is a week in which we brave a challenge greater than any undead monstrosity and a task more daunting than saving the world. We must become parents for all those orphans throughout Azeroth and make sure they are happy. We can't tank a child's fears, we can't heal its memories of pain, nor can we DPS the sorrow out of them. So equip your toys, make a mage conjure a candy table, fill your quiver with joy, load your gun with something colorful, and venture into the World of Parenting!
Children's Week
begins on
April 29th
at
11:00 AM
and ends on
May 6th
at
11:00 AM
(PDT).
Due to the advent of Cataclysm,
Children's Week
was changed in 2011 to have two new pets and redone locations for the initial tier of quests. There's nothing new in 2013, but since all vanity pets are now battle pets, you might be more interested in collecting pets this year! Since battle pets are also account-wide, you can collect different sets of pets on your alts to round out your collection faster.
If you already have all the pets, be sure to pick up [item=7115
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Children's Week (April 29th - May 5th) Guide
Children's Week
is a week in which we brave a challenge greater than any undead monstrosity and a task more daunting than saving the world. We must become parents for all those orphans throughout Azeroth and make sure they are happy. We can't tank a child's fears, we can't heal its memories of pain, nor can we DPS the sorrow out of them. So equip your toys, make a mage conjure a candy table, fill your quiver with joy, load your gun with something colorful, and venture into the World of Parenting!
Children's Week
begins on
April 29th
at
12:01 AM
(server) and ends on
May 5th
at
12:00 AM
.
Due to the advent of Cataclysm,
Children's Week
was changed last year to have two new pets and redone locations for the initial tier of quests.
It's also worth noting that in Mists of Pandaria, pets will be accountwide! This means you should get extra pets on your alts that you do not have so you can trade them to your main when the expansion hits.
If you already have all the pets, be sure to pick up
Magical Pet Biscuit
--the reward for repeating the holiday, even
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